AndrewG

What was the condition of the body? Sills, in particular the sill area (inner and outer) in front of the rear wheels. Wheel arches. Signs of body filler or patching and/or recent resprays to hide poorly repaired rust damage. UK cars are protected to the same degree as imports by the factory for corrosion resistance but generally have had the most exposure to salting in the winter. Check carefully, ideally get the car up on a ramp to inspect.

Very smart, look forward to seeing in the metal. That plenum looks superb!

Exciting times! What colour?

Nice colour!

Come on Simon, don't be bashful your amongst friends here - spill the beans man!

A very unusual event is taking place this year with the Canadian Lancaster flying to the UK and displaying with our own BBMF Lancaster at a number of air displays in August. These are the only two remaining airworthy Lancasters in the world. For those of you who are into watching (and hearing) WW2 piston engine aircraft this is something not to be missed. The sight and sound of eight merlin engines in two Lancasters roaring overhead in the UK skies may never happen again. Further information and display dates here: http://www.warplane.com/lancaster-2014-uk-tour.aspx

If there is a M40 meet with the SC folks then I suggest we work back from that time for us.

Thereabouts!

I'm coming from J6, so if you want to join up at say Cobham services before heading up M40 I would be happy to do so.

Congratulations on your new sponsorship deal and best wishes in your forthcoming competition season.

Do you remember this car?

Be interesting to see what that car actually sells for, but still looks to be a nice Euro spec: http://home.standvirtual.com/classicos-colecoparticular_visualizar_7749576_carros.html

And the HIDs, anything said about them?

Charming!

Couldn't agree more!

Where is that road?

Sorry, don't do FB but it would be great to follow your progress and pics here.

Please don't.

I will travel M25->M40, so somewhere along M40 say Esso Cherwell Valley Motorway Service Area at J10?

Nice looking place, does your new front door come with a drawbridge?

Apart from not really knowing what goes into the castings (garden gates, man hole covers or whatever) the following defect affected a batch of AMS manifolds:

Before buying please note: AMS = Alloy Toyz = Z32 Innovations.

The gases coming off the exhaust turbine are spinning in a circle at a very high velocity, are very hot and still expanding. If those gases enter a larger volume (as in old stock downpipes) they create turbulence slowing the exhaust velocity. When the internal wategate opens this creates even more turbulence which further slows the exhaust velocity. The idea behind all the split downpipes (SZ/Dupree 1st gen splits, 2nd gen Super splits and 3rd gen 3" downpipes) is to keep the exhaust turbine gases entering a pipe similar in diameter to the turbine. This minimises turbulence and together with seperating the wastegate gases (for as long as possible) speeds up the velocity of the exhaust gases and enables the turbos to spin up sooner and make more power.

You could make the same argument for motorists then in that situation.